Ableton LIVE 6.0
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Meeklo – I do get it, and totally respect musicians and their art but if you think about it, most music only exists being played by a DJ – and most producers and bands only get recognition through people DJing their records. That's probably a different argument anyway.
A turntablist has a certain skill set – that's fine, but I get insanely angry when people compare all DJing to their zenith mate who was a D&B DJ back in the day when music "meant something"...like the people who say "if you can't scratch then you're not a DJ". I played vinyl for 8 out of the 10 years I've been DJing and just got fed up with it being so expensive – and also fed up of getting fresher music on MP3 or CD and not being able to mix it because a venue doesn't have industry standard CDJs. The whole dub plate thing is bullshit now anyway – when you get MP3s with the word 'mastered'; after the file name, THAT's fresh – it's never left a computer.
The fact is, DJing with a laptop requires a different skill set. It's harder to scratch than to work ableton and that's fine by me. It still takes a lot of thought and skill to find music and put it together in an order that's going to be right for the situation – and that's what a DJ does.
Rant over!